{"id":689,"date":"2013-07-08T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=689"},"modified":"2013-06-23T15:10:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T22:10:38","slug":"rooks-by-barry-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"Rooks by Barry King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/RooksBackOfSavrasov.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-693\" alt=\"RooksBackOfSavrasov\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/RooksBackOfSavrasov-230x300.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/RooksBackOfSavrasov-230x300.jpg 230w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/RooksBackOfSavrasov-785x1024.jpg 785w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/RooksBackOfSavrasov.jpg 1535w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:RooksBackOfSavrasov.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Silver sheen on lampblack feathers<br \/>\nTurn one eye, then two,<br \/>\nHiding self-sown secrets.<\/p>\n<p>The handle slips from reluctant fingers<br \/>\nI step out, expecting<br \/>\na twitch,<br \/>\na crouch.<br \/>\nA hunting-stoop in crisp hoarfrost air.<\/p>\n<p>Bright-eyed stillness. \u00c2\u00a0Poised. \u00c2\u00a0Mocking.<\/p>\n<p>I turn my back,<br \/>\nMy collar up against the cold croaking gossip<br \/>\nMy feet fumbling to get ahead of themselves<\/p>\n<p>All the while I can feel their attention rapt<br \/>\nas a gaoler&#8217;s grip in the crux of an arm;<br \/>\nHard as sleet<br \/>\nand pinching the bone.<\/p>\n<p>As one, they tear from the trees<br \/>\nand begin to circle.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Barry King lived in several countries around the world until settling in his spouse&#8217;s home town of Kingston, Ontario and converting to Canadianism.\u00c2\u00a0 He writes fiction and poetry, and moonlights as Web director for ChiZine Publications.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #454545; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; background-color: #ffffff;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silver sheen on lampblack feathers Turn one eye, then two, Hiding self-sown secrets. The handle slips from reluctant fingers I step out, expecting a twitch, a crouch. A hunting-stoop in crisp hoarfrost air. Bright-eyed stillness. \u00c2\u00a0Poised. \u00c2\u00a0Mocking. I turn my back, My collar up against the cold croaking gossip My feet fumbling to get ahead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}